Ring Alarm
Want to automatically lock doors when Ring Alarm is armed (Stay or Away)
I have recently installed Ring Alarm and replaced one of my electronic deadbolts with a Z-Wave model supported by Ring Alarm. The integration of the new deadbolt into Ring Alarm was an easy and uneventful process. I see there is functionality to Arm/Disarm Ring Alarm by using the electronic deadbolt, but the functionality I am looking for is to automatically ensure all doors are locked whenever I Arm the Ring Alarm. I have had ADT and XFinity Home alarm systems, both of which offered this functionality; I am disappointed Ring Alarm does not appear to offer this setting. I have already checked IFTTT to see if it would be possible to setup a work-around, but Ring Alarm hooks are basically non-existent in IFTTT. Any suggestions from the community (or more desirable, the addition of this functionality by Ring) would be welcome!
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07-08-2020 11:21:54
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Marley... you misread the first message, and then when question was repeated about locking the door, and you responded about unlocking the doors. Please slow down when reading customer requests/concerns. ScottyB107 - thank you for that tip as I just added it. I don't see why this can't be added to the Ring app, but at least thee is a work around with a Routine. For anyone else who finds this post, here is the actual settings for the Alexa Routine I created: 1. Name - whatever you want. 2. When this happens - Select Smart Home, select Ring Alarm, Select Armed Away or Armed Stay (in my case as setting it to Away seemed dumb because I might be trying to leave through the front door). 3. Add action - Select Smart Home, select All Devices, Select your lock by its name (it auto chooses to lock the lock). Save and you should be done. Do not use the Alexa Guard mode detection for "When this happens" because both Disarmed and Home Stay in the Ring security system are considered "Home" in Alexa Guard. I.E. It can't tell the difference and setting your system to Home Stay at night won't cause a change.
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05-02-2021 10:13:04
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Thanks for the tip with Alexa. I’m surprised this isn’t native ring functionality (I am coming from an Arlo/Smart Things setup), but I’m glad there is a work around. Cheers!
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09-07-2021 01:51:49
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In a perfect scenario, the door has door sensor, with Ring compatible smart lock such as Yale. When switching to away or alarmed, Ring checks door sensor, then lock the door if the door is closed. Otherwise it should alarm the user the door is open. In a real world scenario, not all ring alarm equips with both door sensor and smart lock at the same time. So I guess this is why it was not integrated. However, Ring alarm still misses lots of features when it acts as a hub. It it supports some functions that Smartthings provides, this could be easily customized by setting some rules.
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15-10-2021 01:38:28
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I wonder if Alexa routines would do it. I have a Yale smartlock which only works with Homekit. I do have Homebridge and enabled Ring on it, so I can control everything through Homekit and have an automation for "when everyone arrives home" So, when I arrive home, I get prompted by Homekit if I want to run the automation, and this will disarm the alarm and open the lock.
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15-10-2021 07:50:09
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ScottyB107
If you have Alexa, you can set up a Routine so that when you arm Ring (Home mode, or Away mode), Alexa can lock the door for you automatically when armed. I wanted the same feature, and figured there must be a way. Finally figured out that this would work. The best part is that it doesn’t matter how I arm the alarm system (Ring app, using Alexa, or Ring keypad), Alexa recognizes the system was armed and locks the door if it isn’t locked already.
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14-01-2021 02:30:56
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